Sean Murphy

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  • Oklahoma City Thunder v Houston RocketsLifestyle

    Oklahoma City will vote on a 6-year 1% sales tax to build a $1 billion arena for NBA’s Thunder. One expert calls it ‘by far the worst stadium deal I’ve ever seen’

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • Wilma Mankiller BarbieRetail

    Native Americans rip Mattel for Wilma Mankiller Barbie that says ‘Chicken’ instead of ‘Cherokee’

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • Ricky DoritySuccess

    Oklahoma inmate used stimulus check to hire a private investigator and prove his innocence

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • Hands close up of elderly prisoner holding metal barsFinance

    Oklahoma inmate used COVID pandemic relief funds to hire a private investigator and clear his name of murder

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • Craig YoungPolitics

    The ‘Dallas-Fort Worth Hamptons’ rocked by ‘gut-wrenching’ tapes of sheriffs joking about killing journalists and lynching Black people

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • Idabel, Oklahoma residentsPolitics

    A newspaper published a sheriff’s threats to kill journalists and hang Black people. The sheriff says it’s ‘illegal to secretly record a conversation.’

    By Ken Miller, Sean Murphy, and others
  • Volunteers clean up at Wynne High School, Saturday, April 1, 2023, near the front entrance of the school on E. Jackson Avenue in Wynne, Ark., following severe weather the previous night. (Nena Zimmer/The Jonesboro Sun via AP)Environment

    A tornado hit Missouri killing multiple people as storms tear through the Midwest: ‘It’s just heartbreaking to see’

    By Scott McFettridge, Sean Murphy, and others
  • Al-Stone GebhardtSuccess

    14 states consider laws forcing schools to use trans students’ ‘deadnames’—the ones they were born with and chose to change

    By Hannah Schoenbaum, Sean Murphy, and others
  • Store manager Josh Poole pours marijuana flowers onto a try at a Mango Cannabis medical marijuana dispensary, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma voters will decide Tuesday whether to make the state one of the most conservative to green light cannabis use for adults. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)Health

    Oklahoma voters give thumbs down on ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • Dr. Jarod Mendenhall, Muskogee School Superintendent, speaks at a No on 820 rally on the south plaza of the Capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday, March 6, 2023. Oklahoma voters will decide Tuesday, March, 6, 2023, whether to make the state one of the most conservative to green light cannabis use for adults. (Doug Hoke/The Oklahoman via AP)Politics

    Oklahoma is famously conservative but it could vote this week to legalize weed

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • Oklahoma potSuccess

    Oklahoma has green eyes for Texas as it weighs pot legalization vote to draw in border tourists

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks at a signing ceremony to sign into law a bill, Tuesday, April 12, 2022, in Oklahoma City. The governor is asking lawmakers to approve a massive package of financial incentives to help lure an unnamed company to the state. Stitt made the request at a news conference on Monday, April 18. He told reporters he was prohibited from naming the company or the total cost of the package. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)Politics

    U.S. governor wants lawmakers to approve massive incentives to lure a tech firm to the state—but claims an NDA means he can’t say how much or which company

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • Pro-choice activist in Washington D.C.Politics

    Oklahoma’s governor just signed a bill that criminalizes abortion

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • The side of a building in Van Horn, Texas, is adorned with a mural of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos on Saturday, July 17, 2021, just days before Bezos plans to launch into space from the Blue Origin spaceport about 25 miles outside of the West Texas town. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy)Tech

    Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is bringing space tourism to a small Texas town

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
  • Walmart Shooting Duncan OklahomaRetail

    3 People Killed in Shooting Outside an Oklahoma Walmart

    By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press